On The Fifth Day, You Should Rest - Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Wednesday night was the fifth day that we'd been working on the hardwood, and nothing went right, which could mean one of two things...1 - that we should have taken a night off from working at the house, or 2 - we don't function well without Mom & Dad there. We had seams too close together so we had to rip out a board or two, we had a few wrong cuts that had to be redone, and the list goes on. We ended up only getting a few rows done, when we were hoping to get the whole dining room done. Oh well...Thursday is another day. Hopefully we can get more boards done with the Moms helping out. It seems that more than three people works out better. We're at the point now where we can't use the nailer to put the boards in because we're too close to the wine racks, so we have to use screws instead. That should be a little bit easier.

Norm the Painter was still there when we got there, and was there for quite a while while we were there, painting the upstairs bedrooms and hallways and bathroom. And it all looks good. On Thursday he will be painting the main floor, including our chocolate brown dining room and the red wall in the livingroom. I've taken a before picture of the living room wall, and I can't wait to take the after picture.

Don the Geothermal Guy, "Plumber", and Don's electrician were there last night as well, still hooking up the geothermal unit. They got it running and installed the thermostat, so at least we know the heating system is working properly.

Ray was there as well and put up the spindle things on the porch stairs. At least we think he was there on Wednesday. It could have been Tuesday and we just might not have noticed it...

Here's poor tuckered out Ryan, curled up with Dexter. Dexter does NOT look happy in either of these pictures. Perhaps because Ryan's drooling on him? Not to sure...